Has anyone found a solution on how to stop Seagate Central automatically creating the unwanted and unsolicted 983db650f7f79bc8e87d9a3ba418aefc folder​s? These folders seem to appear when copying folders of photos into the Seagate - Seagate creates and inserts one of these sub-folders into each folder that is copied across.Each 983db650f7f79bc8e87d9a3ba418aefc folder​ includes the thumbnails of the photos that are in the relevant copied folder. This feature may have a use somewhere, but in the meantime it is annoying, unsolicited and it means that the copy no longer matches the original.Any help on how to get rid of these 983db650f7f79bc8e87d9a3ba418aefc folder​s would be greatly appreciated.ThanksPMCL Has anyone found a solution on how to stop Seagate Central automatically creating the unwanted and unsolicted 983db650f7f79bc8e87d9a3ba418aefc folder​s? These folders seem to appear when... » Read More Has anyone found a solution on how to stop Seagate Central automatically creating the unwanted and unsolicted 983db650f7f79bc8e87d9a3ba418aefc folder​s? These folders seem to appear when copying folders of photos into the Seagate - Seagate creates and inserts one of these sub-folders into each folder that is copied across.Each 983db650f7f79bc8e87d9a3ba418aefc folder​ includes the thumbnails of the photos that are in the relevant copied folder. This feature may have a use somewhere, but in the meantime it is annoying, unsolicited and it means that the copy no longer matches the original.Any help on how to get rid of these 983db650f7f79bc8e87d9a3ba418aefc folder​s would be greatly appreciated.ThanksPMCL « Show Less
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I too am disgusted by this, it is so annoying. I haven't figured out a way to totally stop it, but am looking. Currently my best recommendation is just to open up the drive in Windows Explorer, navigate to the top-most level on the drive (All of my stuff is in the Public folder), and use windows search to find all folders named 983db650f7f79bc8e87d9a3ba418aefc. I had roughly 1,200 of the little bastards. Then just highlight them all and delete. It took me about 10 minutes to delete 1,200 of them. The question really is will they come back........ Only time will tell, I hope it is something that only happens when the files are initially copied. I too am disgusted by this, it is so annoying. I haven't figured out a way to totally stop it, but am looking. Currently my best recommendation is just to open up the drive in Windows Explorer, navigate to the top-most level on the drive (All of my stuff is in the Public folder), and use windows search to find all folders named 983db650f7f79bc8e87d9a3ba418aefc. I had roughly 1,200 of the little bastards. Then just highlight them all and delete. It took me about 10 minutes to delete 1,200 of them. The question really is will they come back........ Only time will tell, I hope it is something... » Read More I too am disgusted by this, it is so annoying. I haven't figured out a way to totally stop it, but am looking. Currently my best recommendation is just to open up the drive in Windows Explorer, navigate to the top-most level on the drive (All of my stuff is in the Public folder), and use windows search to find all folders named 983db650f7f79bc8e87d9a3ba418aefc. I had roughly 1,200 of the little bastards. Then just highlight them all and delete. It took me about 10 minutes to delete 1,200 of them. The question really is will they come back........ Only time will tell, I hope it is something that only happens when the files are initially copied. « Show Less
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You have to go into the Seagate Central control panel and disable seagate media under the services tab. You may also have to disable DLNA services. My DLNA was already disabled and the folders were still being created, it stopped after I disabled Seagate Media services.
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the only thing I can suggest is to contact Seagate. You can go onto the website and that should answer your questions if not they have a phone number on the web that you can call. Good Luck I hope this can help you
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I am not sure if it is true, but I read (perhaps in another review) that these are OEM drives for PC manufacturers, and hence they are not warrantied to the end user, but instead through the PC manufacturer. If you read other reviews, it is mentioned that they might be pulled from servers and the SMART data wiped. That said, I have ordered 4 of these and haven't had any complaints yet after a few months.
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In my experience, all of the capacity is unscripted. When you open the drive, you did not see even folders (not to mention files) until you go over entire unencryption (take some minutes to finish).
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I have long been a Seagate user, in part because I live in Brazil and both their distribution and support here are excellent, reputable and well-established for many years. My home desktop PC has two Seagate HDDs and I never had any problems with them or their other Seagate predecessors. However, Seagate has been having one serious problem after another in the last couple of years, with many "bricked" HDDs due to serious firmware flaws and other issues. Not only that, it has denied the existence of such problems until the amount of complaints and outcry was too staggering for it to ignore. While those problems happened mostly with their internal HDD models and I have never had any direct experience with their *external* HDDs, I read the user reviews before buying a new external drive, and the FreeAgent Go is having lots of problems, especially messing up Windows' handling of USB ports (or the chipset's, it's not clear) and having unrecoverable write errors in Windows, for which Seagate had not yet offered a solution when I last looked. No wonder that Seagate has had billions in losses in the last quarters, even taking into account the recession, and its stock has plummeted. It has lost a lot of credibility - and sales. Since Toshiba and Samsung external HDDs had even worse complaints (many angry users with "dead" HDDs just after a few months' use), and Iomega drives seemed to be good but were way too expensive and had no service or warranty in Brazil, I went for a WD My Passport Elite (and have just bought an Essential as well). At least so far, working great with no problems at all.
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Good question. The drive arrived with zero printed materials so I have no idea. Thanks for raising the question -- maybe someone from Amazon can answer! When you buy bare drives from Amazon, you get good packing material and a good box. Nothing else. There might be info on the Seagate site...
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Hi, I'm so sorry, I can't help you: I never, ever use the back up software in these drives, my laptop is already slow and I find it makes it worst, so I copy/updates my files manually. Good luck with yours!
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I had the same "issue" and decided to install an updated version of office. At my office, I'm moving files onto a stand alone drive so that I don't lose any information and plan to transfer it when I reload "7". Safest thing I can come up with. Sorry, wish I could help more! DonDon
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We have not had that problem. We use this file for important stuff. When we don't need to take action then they go to another file for long term storage. Phil
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I used Acronis to create an image file to an external drive. then, restore the image back to SSD. if you encounter any issues better to reinstall the OS than figuring out to fix the problem.
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Try using Seagate Dashboard 3.0 and following the instructions for remote saving of specified data. I have call the help line and found them to be extremely helpful. Note that some areas I hoped were included as part of the remote backup and access were not available. I apparently misread the features/instructions.
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I've actually copied a few smaller to larger drives, but I can't remember how it handled the partition on the new drives. If it didn't automatically resize to fill the drive, then it was trivial to do within Windows because I know I didn't spend a lot of time doing it, and I definitely didn't use partitioning software.
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Sorry, I can't find that info in my booklet. Try going to the Seagate website.
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I ordered four drives, after receipt I ran their numbers through the Warranty Validation page on the Seagate Partner site and received the following information: "The product you identified was sold as a system component. Please contact your place of purchase for service. Seagate sells many drives to direct OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) customers. These products are usually configured for the OEMs only, as components for their systems. You must contact your place of purchase for any warranty support on these drives."
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It uses a new technology developed by Microsoft that is far more advanced and flexible than RAID and way less complicated. It provides duplicated data same as RAID. It may not be real-time duped but I have added large data files and it appears to begin duplicating the file before I am through copying it over to the server. In any case it was through duping in a few seconds. Unlike RAID you can add or remove any size HDD (SATA or USB) whenever you want.
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It's the way these hard drives have been shown for years. The drives are closed and should never be opened. The picture is to show you what they look like inside.
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When I duplicated my drives, I didnt use any software. You can duplicate drives without plugging the dock into a computer, instead running it as a stand-alone unit. The larger drive's partition didnt automatically expand, instead it showed the smaller drive's size. I used a free partition manager program to "fix" the partition.